Outrage Theater for the Freeze-and-Pay Crowd – Watts Up With That?

Governor Maura Healey is outraged. Outraged, I tell you! And when a politician is outraged, you know it’s serious — because it usually means they’ve just been caught red-handed creating a problem that’s now torching the people who elected them. This time, the crisis is Massachusetts families staring down a nearly 20 percent hike in their winter heating bills. According to Mass Daily News, Healey stormed to the cameras to thunder, “These rate hikes are outrageous. I am urging the DPU to scrutinize this proposal and push back on Eversource”.

Yes, the governor who strangled natural gas pipelines in their crib is now shocked — shocked! — to find there isn’t enough gas to keep the state warm without paying European-import prices. This is like smashing your car with a baseball bat, then screaming at the mechanic when it won’t start.

Let’s review the tape. Healey, back when she was Attorney General, gleefully bragged about killing not one, but two pipelines that would have brought desperately needed natural gas into the Bay State. She weaponized a glossy 2015 “climate report” that insisted Massachusetts didn’t need new pipelines — because, of course, renewable pixie dust was just around the corner. She crowed in a radio interview that she “stood up for ratepayers” by ensuring pipeline companies couldn’t push costs onto consumers. The companies walked, the pipelines died, and Healey took a victory lap.

Fast forward to 2025. The gas bills are set to explode by as much as 17 percent this winter. The families she claimed to “stand up for” are now wondering how exactly freezing in their living rooms qualifies as standing up for them. And Healey? She’s on TV, wagging her finger at the utility companies, pretending to be the victim of some corporate conspiracy.

The problem for Healey is that voters aren’t as dumb as she hopes. They remember who killed those pipelines. They remember who promised sunshine and sea breezes would magically meet demand. They remember the speeches, the boasts, the green sanctimony. The whole thing is a classic case of the arsonist showing up at the fire scene, screaming at the flames she lit herself.

Of course, this isn’t just a Massachusetts problem. It’s the climate cult’s entire business model. These are the same geniuses who spent decades chanting “no more pipelines,” then acted shocked when energy prices went up. They assured us offshore wind farms would replace fossil fuels, then demanded billions in subsidies when the turbines couldn’t turn a profit. They shut down coal plants, then panicked when the grid buckled during a cold snap. Every time, it’s the same script: sabotage supply, spike costs, feign outrage, and blame somebody else.

Remember California’s rolling blackouts? Same religion, different pew. Remember Germany’s “Energiewende,” the great green transition that left the country hooked on Russian gas and burning more coal than ever? Same genius plan, same failure. Massachusetts is just the latest episode of the global warming soap opera, where the heroes always make life harder for the people they claim to save.

And Healey’s performance is priceless. “Outrageous!” she cries, as if the laws of supply and demand are some sinister plot hatched by Eversource executives in a smoky boardroom. Newsflash: when you block supply and increase demand, prices go up. This isn’t dark sorcery. It’s Economics 101. But apparently the syllabus at progressive finishing school skipped that chapter.

It gets better. Back in 2015, the official line from Healey’s office was that Massachusetts could coast until 2030 without new pipelines, relying on “efficiency programs” and “climate goals”. Translation: turn down your thermostat, buy a sweater, and pray to Saint Greta of Thunberg. Now, in 2025, here’s the result: no new pipelines, no extra supply, and “crushing bills” landing on families who can barely cover groceries and housing.

This is what happens when political vanity meets basic utility. Healey wanted to be a climate warrior. Massachusetts voters wanted affordable heat. Guess who wins? Spoiler: it’s not the voters.

And let’s be clear: Healey’s outrage isn’t about the families getting clobbered. It’s about political damage control. Winter heating bills don’t care about talking points. When those bills show up in January with numbers that look like your mortgage payment, people get angry — not at utilities, but at the politicians who made sure there wasn’t enough fuel to go around.

The Mass Daily News piece nails it: “Healey wants the spotlight as the savior, railing against corporations and regulators, but many see her as the arsonist-turned-firefighter, raging against flames she lit herself”. You can almost hear the campaign ad: “This winter, the politics won’t heat your home. The bill will.”

And boy, that bill will. Families are going to get hammered. And while Healey postures about “standing up to Big Utility,” the reality is that utilities can’t conjure gas out of thin air. When you kill pipelines, you kill supply. When you kill supply, you pay more. It’s that simple.

There’s a dark humor in all this. The very people who elected this green messiah are now stuck paying for her crusade. They wanted to save the planet, and instead they’re saving up for extra blankets. It’s the political equivalent of demanding kale at every meal, then acting surprised when you’re still hungry.

But here’s the bigger point: this isn’t incompetence. It’s intentional. The climate left believes pain is the point. They want energy expensive, because they think that will force people into “green choices.” In reality, it forces people into poverty, but hey — as long as the activists feel virtuous at their donor banquets, who cares?

And yet, there’s always that delicious hypocrisy. These same leaders who tell you to “tighten your belt” on heating costs are the ones jetting to climate conferences in Europe. They shut down pipelines for you, then make sure their government offices are toasty warm all winter. They demand “sacrifice” while living like royalty. If the Romans had this level of hypocrisy, Nero would have fiddled while somebody else froze.

So now we head into winter with a state full of furious voters, a governor trying desperately to memory-hole her pipeline-killing past, and utility bills that could double as ransom notes. And when the people shiver, remember who brought them to this place. It wasn’t Eversource. It wasn’t some greedy executive. It was the governor who thought green ideology mattered more than warm homes.

The politics won’t heat your home. The bill will. And when it lands, every Massachusetts voter should tape it to their fridge with one question scrawled across the top in red marker: “How’s that climate leadership working out for you?”

Author’s Note: Yes I’m home, no surgery, wearing a neck brace for three months, and consider myself incredibly blessed and lucky for not being paralyzed or dead. As someone told me today, I just missed the death offramp and now all my time is bonus time.

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